An inquest which was: just taken place on the ly of an apprentice, named Rudden, who died at the Manton'stables' has given rise to a good deal of respondence on the subject of the bratality which goes on at' rating: stables, The prizes in the jockey's profession are huge; but the apprenticeship is very hard. ' The debasing influence which the noblest of quadrupeds exerts on those who come into close contact with it is proverbial; and it seems to be particularly marked in the case of racing stables. Several witnesses. bord testimony to the manner in which the lad Rudden had been thrashed and ill-used by the stableman and in spite of medical evidence that death' was due to tubercular meningitis and' not to the beatings which the lad had received, the jury insisted on returning a verdict, which amounts to sanslaightér against the three men who' had tha: Tt is impossible that. such'' upheld in a' criminal court' la of thie medical evidence' but it may nevertheless
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